AEGEAN ANOMIE
by Rachel Corbett
Art collectors love nothing more than being in on the joke.
Peter Brant’s striking nude sculpture of his wife
Stephanie Seymour, depicted as a ship’s figurehead by artist
Maurizio Cattelan, is called
Trophy Wife.
Steven A. Cohen, Wall Street’s most ruthless profit machine, is the proud possessor of
Damien Hirst’s famous 14-foot-long Tiger Shark in a fish tank. And
Dakis Joannou has a
114-foot-long yacht
painted in a kaleidoscopic pattern of yellow, blue and black by
Jeff Koons, and christened
Guilty.
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